Faraz Usmani
Faraz Usmani
Research Economist, Mathematica
I am an applied microeconomist with research interests at the intersection of environmental and development economics. I study how lack of access to modern energy services affects environmental and socioeconomic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. I am also interested in what drives the effectiveness of environmental and development interventions in remote, rural settings.
I am currently a Research Economist in the International Unit at Mathematica. Prior to joining Mathematica, I was an Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellow at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. I received my PhD in Environmental Economics from Duke University.
Recent publications
- Faraz Usmani, Marc Jeuland, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak; NGOs and the Effectiveness of Interventions. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2022
- Marc Jeuland, T. Robert Fetter, Yating Li, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Faraz Usmani, Randall A. Bluffstone, Carlos Chávez, Hannah Girardeau, Sied Hassen, Pamela Jagger, Mónica M. Jaime, Mary Karumba, Gunnar Köhlin, Luciane Lenz, Erin L. Litzow, Lauren Masatsugu, Maria Angelica Naranjo, Jörg Peters, Ping Qin, Remidius D. Ruhinduka, Montserrat Serrano-Medrano, Maximiliane Sievert, Erin O. Sills, Michael Toman, ‘Is energy the golden thread? A systematic review of the impacts of modern and traditional energy use in low- and middle-income countries’, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 135, 2021, 110406.
- Pattanayak, S.K., Jeuland, M.A., Lewis, J.J., Usmani, F., Brooks, N., Bhojvaid, V., Kar, A., Lipinski, L., Morrison, L., Patange, O., et al., 2019. Experimental evidence on promotion of electric and improved biomass cookstoves. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 116 (27), 13282–13287.